Lukullus

Lukullus Adult Tins Grain Free: Beef & Turkey review

Name: Lukullus Adult Tins Grain Free: Beef & Turkey
Brand: Lukullus

78.5/100Excellent

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

Five tins built on named offal and muscle, all in our Excellent band. Hearts, liver, lung, rumen and necks are each listed, never pooled into a category term. The plant side is deliberately thin and there is no cereal.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that eat with more enthusiasm when there is offal in the bowl
Owners who like reading the actual cuts
Grain-avoiding households
One-animal feeding: the Pork names pork and nothing else
Rotation feeders, since only the meat moves from tin to tin
Large dogs, with an 800g tin across most of the range

Worth watching

Poultry left unnamed on the Poultry and Lamb tin
The vitamin panel shifts between recipes
An open 800g tin needs covering and keeping in the fridge

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

78.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of all breeds, with three recipes also listed for seniors. For a 15kg dog the charts run from about 665 to 845 grams a day.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Pork 79.6
Duck 79.2
Beef 78.5
Turkey 78.0
Poultry 71.7

All five Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

So little separates the five that the meats your dog prefers should decide it.

What's in it

Beef hearts, meat, liver, lung, rumen33%Offal as much as muscle. Rumen is tripe.
Turkey hearts, meat, liver, necks33%
Meat stock27.4%Loosens the tin.
Potatoes5%The only starch.
Minerals1%
Sunflower oil0.5%A small inclusion; the real fat comes from the meat.
Parsley0.1%

Vitamin D3, vitamin E, biotin, zinc, manganese and iodine, each with a printed dose per kilo.

Named ingredients

Complete food for adult dogs of all breeds. Ingredients, Beef & turkey with potatoes, parsley and sunflower oil: 33 % consisting of beef hearts, beef meat, beef liver, beef lung, beef rumen, 33 % consisting of turkey hearts, turkey meat, turkey liver, turkey necks, 27.4 % meat stock, 5 % potatoes, 1 % minerals, 0.5 % sunflower oil, 0.1 % parsley.

Against the range

Meat: Beef 33%, turkey 33%; Even blocks on the Poultry and Lamb; 36/30 on the Duck and Veal; 65% pork alone
Energy: 115 kcal per 100g; 101 to 120.9 kcal across the five
Oil: Sunflower; Linseed, safflower or walnut on the others

Among the denser tins here, so servings run a little smaller than the range average.

Every recipe has the same build: two blocks of named meat and offal, around two thirds of the tin, then meat stock and a short plant list. The Pork is the exception, a single 65% block. Hearts lead almost every list, with liver, lung, rumen, necks and stomachs itemised.

No cereal appears; potato, sweet potato, broccoli or courgette carry the little starch there is. Each tin has one named oil at 0.5% or 0.3%. Protein converts to between 43.3% and 47.7% of dry matter across the five.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

115 kcal/100g

Protein

10.9%

Fat

6.9%

Fibre

0.6%

Ash

Moisture

76%

Dry weight

Protein

45.4%

Fat

28.8%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

8.3%

Carbs

15%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

33%

Added water

27.4%

Carbs

Oils

33.5%

Other

1.1%

Pricing & size